Reza Kahlili, a self-proclaimed former CIA “double agent” inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, appeared in disguise at a Washington think tank Friday claiming that Iran has developed weapons-grade uranium and missiles ready to carry nuclear warheads. The pseudonymous Kahlili, whose previous accounts have been greeted with widespread skepticism, also said Iran was planning nuclear suicide [...]

By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS — After 15 years, Arab nations finally won agreement from the United States and the other nuclear powers to take the first step toward banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. Now, the next move is Israel’s. Although the U.S. joined the 188 other member nations of the Nuclear [...]

Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan flew to Tehran on Sunday seeking to seal a deal with Iran on a nuclear fuel swap that could help end a stand-off with the West over its atomic program. Erdogan will join Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who has been in Tehran negotiating with Iranian [...]

  By Thomas Erdbrink Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, May 16, 2010   TEHRAN — Brazilian and Turkish diplomats are trying to persuade Iranian leaders to deposit part of their uranium stockpile abroad in exchange for recognition of their controversial nuclear enrichment program, Brazilian foreign minister Celso Amorim said Saturday. U.S. officials have blessed the [...]

  Iranian president provokes West once again, insists on making speech at nuclear NPT conference. Republicans, Jews, other groups make effort to prevent his visit, boycott his speech     WASHINGTON – The Iranian President’s visits to New York are always a cause for tension. Before arriving at the Big Apple for the nuclear Non-Proliferation [...]

  By Colum Lynch Washington Post  UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested a visa to travel next week to New York to address a U.N. conference aimed at stemming the spread of nuclear weapons, a move that sets the stage for a potential confrontation with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton over [...]

Edward Yeranian | Cairo09 April 2010 Photo: AP Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after unveiling a third generation of domestically built centrifuge, 09 Apr 2010 Iran announced Friday that is had developed a new, faster generation of centrifuges for uranium enrichment, signaling its determination to press on with its nuclear work despite possible new sanctions being [...]

UNITED NATIONS — China is ready for “serious” talks at the United Nations on Iran’s nuclear program, the United States said Wednesday, as it sought support for sanctions against Tehran. “China has agreed to sit down and begin serious negotiations here in New York,” the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said on [...]

By Michel Comte (AFP) – 3 hours ago GATINEAU, Canada — Iran’s nuclear ambitions took center stage Tuesday at a Group of Eight foreign ministers summit on global security and terrorism, overshadowed by the deadly Russian subway blasts. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton affirmed late Monday the participation in Iranian sanctions talks of China, [...]

By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: March 27, 2010 NY TIMES     WASHINGTON – Six months after the revelation of a secret nuclear enrichment site in Iran, international inspectors and Western intelligence agencies say they suspect that Tehran is preparing to build more sites in defiance of United Nations demands.   [...]